No, as far as I’m aware you have to physically put samples to specific notes in the OP-XY.
There could be some .JSON file that you could maybe alter and ensure that the samples are in the same preset folder, that might work, but I have not tried it.
That’s for the default presets, the user preset are in snapshots. But you can can change from category to engine sorting, the. Your user presets are stored in the engine that was used.
I do NOT think it’s worth the price they are asking, HOWEVER I do think that the extremely bitter tantrum reaction/surprise to this price is totally silly in context to what they’ve already established as their price range, in comparison to what people have already somehow accepted. The OP-1f is a massively overpriced device, it’s based on a device they’ve had since 2011, barely been updated in that time, not that technically interesting anymore (cool concept, I’ll admit, and I’m surprised theres no competitors), but it’s crazy to have at $2000. The OP-XY is quite more interesting than the OP-1f to me, and much more technically impressive and a more striking design IMO. In the context of the the baseline $2000 price for the OP1, then $2300 OP-XY makes perfect sense, and I would be incredibly surprised if they had priced it under the current OP-1f. I do wonder if this reaction would have happened if it was also priced at 1999.
These to me should BOTH be $1200 devices. If they are handbuilt, ethically sourced, eco-friendly, lifetime warranty devices with guaranteed updates, I would be willing to go a bit higher.
When I had the op-z I thought that it was the most amazing sequencer ever. I remember thinking that elektron would have some work to do to catch up. Its biggest limitation to me, was the feel of using it, pressing its buttons and “knobs”. I consider a piece of hardware useless if it doesn’t give me any pleasure of physically twisting and pressing it and having an immediate and desired action. In other words the op-z felt fiddly to use. Besides other obvious improvements, the op-xy seems to solve this problem. 
if your familiar with the Z, it’s pretty much the same paradigm from sequencing to step components and punch in fx, tape track behavior, brain chords is the master track on Z and most of the Synths engines are straight from the OP1 & Z with some added parameters instead of direct filter control (fm, dr.wave, EP, Organ)
but the most appealing thing are the buttons, it’s the same shortcuts but on a bigger surface with op-1 buttons and the way you can interact with such, fast and tactile but also slow and silently, busy but fun.
the experience and technical aspect is basically the same but in order to „update“ the synth engines one can use the Z with a Rytm and A4 or AUM on the iPad and korg gadget for instance.
TE basically made a sequencer based recording studio in a half sized MacBook shell, bits and pieces like a modular system or classic dawless desk setups, with tons of cables and adapters 🫥
now, please add 4x part multitimbral Midi Channel input to the OP-1f and a „mixer“ to route the signals between tape tracks or to fixed tracks, which respectively can then have their own tempo and length….
MPE for the engines 🫠
Multisampler, Brain Chords.
let’s go 🪴
I feel I’m being quoted out of context
Haha nah! Not working for TE (I wish)
I just really enjoy their products.
I also spend a lot of time modding synths and trying to build them myself, so at this point I have a pretty high tolerance for “issues” with synths
thanks - it would indeed be nice to put 7 octaves of Cs (or whatever) into a folder and then the OPXY maps it.
I’m going to have to buy one of these because I’ve been thinking about it a lot every day and that Tyson fight made me realize I’m getting old and I’ll eventually die. I want to feel the joy of OP-XY before I die.
Looking forward to getting some example patches to mess about with, to see if I can add some support for creating these to digichain, as it already handles OP-Z / OP-1 Field sample chains.
I’m going on a road trip today with my wife at the wheel and I decided to take the OP-1 Field with me and I have to say… it’s not helping the gas lol. Not that the Field is making me wish I had something else but more just reminding me even more how much fun it is to use TEs instruments.
They mentioned they didn’t consider it, but working on the op-z showed them how they could add it to the op-1. By the timing I’m confident that they where already working on the field, so I would guess that while working on implementing it on the field they had it 80% working on op-1 and sad “fuck it, let’s port it back” 
I know the op-1 field and the op-xy are out of my price bracket by a long margine. But with fields multiple projects, you could have 4 stereo audio tracks additionally to all the op-xy tracks. + You could control another track over the 4.
If they do a good integration of the 2 over usb with good audio routing… You could produce actually really complex tracks with them.
Only two features I’d want added are are internal bounce, like an internal 8track recorder, that you can then drag the wav across to your comp via usb - like the OP1. Or, usb audio interface streaming out as an 8track. I’d take either or. That would make it a buy for me maybe in another 2 years once the price settles, perhaps Black Friday 2026 lol
Who knows, but personally doubt that would happen. Too much overlap with what OP-1F already does.
It does excite me to think how much potential one would get pairing xy with OP-1 or TP-7 though for all the audio goodness
Tyson didn’t so much get old as he faked a fight and got a huge pay out.
By then move can maybe add enough features to satiate the wish for a mobile workstation.
i love the encoders on the original z so much! even for dialing in values at high resolution i never had a problem with them. i know some people had encoders that popped out… but i’m talking about when the encoders were fine, working as they should- much more satisfying and quick for me than using the encoders on the op-1f for example. something about being able to turn the z encoders with 1 finger is amazing!
Hmm, I don’t think that would be crossover. It’s like saying adding Overbridge to Digitone is taking from the Digitakt feature set (not the same I know, just using it to illustrate a point). It’s just something these devices should do in 2024. Not sure why they held back on that and can only presume it’s in the pipeline, it’s a steer clear from me until it’s on the table. Watch people sell them once they realise this is a thing
I was searching for similar encoders… And could actually not find good ones that don’t cost the price of a used po for 2 of them. It was eye opening how hard good encoders are